Partition



' March 29, 1949.

J. A. PoTcHl-:N 2,465,603

PARTITION Filed April 9, 1947 flush with the outer faces of the bars.When the panels and bars have been assembled and joined together asillustrated in Fig. 6, it has been found by test, that torsional andother` stresses to which the wall or partition may be subjected, do notdamage the panels or the joints, and do not cause crazing. In practice,these panels and bars may be supported at their upper and lower ends byiiXed beams, and it has been found in practice that the joints betweenthe bars and the panels adequately support the wall or partition betweenthe beams.

The tapered portions at the sides of the grooves are resilient land whenforced into the channels in the bars, become wedged against the aredsides of the channels in the bars, to form an eflicient andtight-fitting joint. When the contiguous corners of the veneer at thelongitudinal edge of the panel are in contact, the compressi'bility andresiliency of the Veneer aid in making the joint secure.

In the modication illustrated in Fig. 7, a T- shaped panel 35 is used toform corners between partitions or walls at right angles to each other.This T-shaped panel -comprises straight inner laminations of wood veneer36 and an outer straight lamination 3l of metal bonded thereto,angularly bent corner laminations of Wood veneer 38 with outerlaminations 39 of metal bonded thereto. The three longitudinal marginsof the panel 38, are grooved and bent in the same manner as previouslydescribed and each is adapted to be joined to a bar I6 having a flaredchannel for receiving the panel, in the manner previously described.

The invention is not to be understood as limited to the detailsdescribed, since these may be modified within the scope of the appendedclaims without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interiorlaminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesivelybondedk together, at least one edge of the panel having its centralportion cut away so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metalat each side of the groove, the remaining portions of the laminations atthe sides of the groove being bent to form a cross-sectionally taperedmargin, and a bar having a ared channel with sides between which thetapered margin is wedgingly confined.

2. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interiorlaminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesivelybonded together, at least one edge of the panel having its centralportion cut away so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metalat each side oi the groove, the remaining portions of the laminations atthe sides of the groove being bent to form a cross-sectionally taperedmargin with the contiguous corners of the veneer substantially incontact along the longitudinal edge of the panel, and a bar having aflared channel with correspondingly tapered sides between which thetapered margin is wedgingly coni-ined.

3. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interiorlaminations of wood ve.- neer and outer laminations of metal adhesivelybonded together, at least one edge of the panel confined.

4. A composite wall construction, comprising: panels each includinginterior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metaladhesively bonded together and having oppositely disposed longitudinaledges with the central portions of the veneer being cut awaylongitudinally at said edges so as to leave some Veneer and thelamination of metal at the sides of the cut-aways, the remainingportions at the sides of the cutaways being bent to formcross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins, and bars having ilaredchannels therein With sides between which the tapered margins of thepanels are wedgingly coniined.

5. A composite wall construction, comprising: panels each includinginterior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metaladhesively bonded together and having Oppositely disposed longitudinaledges with the central portions of the veneer being cut awaylongitudinally at said edges so as to leave some veneer and thelamination of metal at the sides of the eutaways, the remaining portionsat the side-s of the cutaways being bent to form cross-sectionallytapered longitudinal margins with contiguous corners in contact at theedges of the panels, and bars having flared channels therein with sidesbetween which the tapered margins of the panels are wedgingly confined.

' 6. That improvement in constructing wall-s which include panels havinginterior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal andbars having cross-sectionally flared channels for the edges of thepanels which comprises:

cutting longitudinal grooves in the edges of they panels so as to leavesome of the veneer and the lamination of metal at each side of thegroove, bending the portions at the sides of the groove to formcross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins and assembling the panelsand the bars with the tapered margins of the panels in the flaredchannels in the bars.

7. That improvement in constructing walls which include panels havinginterior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal andbars having cross-sectionally flared channels for the edges of thepanels which comprises: cutting grooves in the edges of the panels so asto leave some veneer and the lamination of metal at each side of thegroove, bending the portions at the sides of the groove to formcross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins and assembling thepanels, `inserting tape between the bars and tapered margins of thepanels.

JOSEPH REFERENCES crrnn The following references are of record in the leof this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Olsen Nov. 17, 1942 A. POTCHEN.

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